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If you ever wanted to design a super car loaded with as many weapons and tools as you could imagine (think your own personal Batmobile), now is finally your chance. Not only do you get an opportunity to design the craziest vehicle you can dream up and see it built in real life, but you can also win up to $7,500 in prize money from the Pentagon’s research branch, DARPA. …

Imagine a future where you walk into an airport or government building and you don’t have to wait in long lines to be scanned for bombs and other heavy-duty weaponry. Instead, intelligent vegetation is genetically trained to react to the presence of explosives. …

The Pentagon’s research branch, DARPA, is great at turning wacky and cool ideas into real inventions and tools. Their next target is to take heat-vision technology and shrink it to such a small size that it would fit in the palm of a soldier’s hand. And not only that, but they hope to get it small enough to become part of a smartphone or a rifle scope to allow soldiers to clearly see in the dark without carrying any extra equipment. …

The government’s first obsession was to find as many ways of collecting data as possible. In this pursuit, however, they’ve become entirely overwhelmed with information, and are running out of analyst manpower. …